Archives for October, 2007

The Value of Certification

  • Posted by taylor
  • October 13, 2007

While I’ve long debated the real value of professional certifications in the IT industry, it would be ignorant to refute the hard data that demonstrates the perceived value of certification, and the resulting remuneration benefits.

Teaching in Alaska

  • Posted by taylor
  • October 13, 2007

I’m off to Anchorage, Alaska tomorrow to teach a VMware VI3 class, and am actually quite giddy about it. Alaska remains one of the few place in the US that I haven’t yet visited and still want to.

Ubuntu on the MacBook Pro: Physical, Virtual, or Both?!

  • Posted by taylor
  • October 13, 2007

Ubuntu instead of, and in addition to, Mac OS X on a MacBook ProWhen I first bought my MacBook Pro, I bought it with the intention of dual-booting into Ubuntu to run VMware Server so that I could run VMware ESX inside of a virtual Machine. Shortly thereafter, VMware Fusion was released, rendering my original intent academic.